God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.

How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they read more

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

History, a distillation of rumor.

History, a distillation of rumor.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of read more

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.